Might we suggest these Republicans get their lies straight before going public?

From Republican State Representative Tom Emmer's press release today, on the defeat of his restrictive Photo ID voting bill in the MN legislature this morning:

"The U.S. Senate recount has given us evidence of twenty-five precincts in Minnesota where more votes were cast than the rolls had registered voters," said Emmer. "How does a situation like that not cry out for a safeguard that will return confidence in our election process to Minnesota voters?"

Just now, from attorney James Langdon, arguing on behalf of former Republican Senator Norm Coleman, in the U.S. Senate election contest in MN:

"There hasn't been a whiff here, of any fraud."

But why quibble when we might be able to disenfranchise (Democratic-leaning) voters in a democracy? By the way, the RNC seems to agree with Langdon, not Emmer:

Not that any of that will stop any Republican anywhere from doing everything they can to keep legal (Democratic-leaning) voters from being able to cast their legal votes through Photo ID restrictions, or anything else they can think of.

There is something disreputable, grasping, might I say unholy about modern Republicans, truly starting with Nixon, although Harding was extremely corrupt. It happened when the religious "right" took over with a stated aim of turning the party from its unholy ways. (The GOP is the party that legalized abortion: it didn't just happen under their watch (Nixon), they promoted it.)

Now we have one sliver of the party clinging to the ideals of big business and no regulations (Romney and Whitman), those just trying to survive until retirement (Judd and McCain), and those who are simply using the broken party for their personal reasons (DeLay, Coleman, etc.). This last group will say anything, so anything, steal anything to help themselves rob the public. Consistency is not paramount when anything that gets you what you want is right.